PRIYANKA

priyanka89.2308@gmail.com +91-9958071777 linkedin.com/in/priyanka-l-i-o-n

SUMMARY

A pro-active HR Professional with more than 10 years of diversified industry-wide experience in the areas of Sourcing, Head
Hunting, Salary Negotiation, Executive Hiring, Team Management, and Stakeholder Management.

EXPERIENCE

COWI (August 2018 – Present)

Global Recruitment and Onboarding Specialist- North America (Nov 2021 – Present)

In addition to the recruitment piece, I handle the onboarding activities for new employees in North America, which includes:

• Ensuring smooth execution of onboarding process and service in North America

• Conduct daily stand-ups/scrums with the team to streamline the workflow
• Feedback reporting of onboarding process and service every quarter
• Prepare resource utilisation/team capacity plan and share in weekly catch-ups
• Identify and suggest areas of improvement in the process and service
• Support in implementation of Line Manager checklist for onboarding Line Managers

Global Recruitment Specialist- North America (Sep 2019 – Present)

Global Talent Acquisition Consultant (Europe, UK, Middle East, Far East, India, Southeast Asia)
Aug 2018 - Aug 2019

Apart from owning the end-to-end recruitment process for COWI in North America which includes being involved with the
stakeholders to understand the prognosis and doing pro-active recruitment, creating quality adverts with the help of the business
and communications team, training new hiring managers on the process and using the ATS, etc., I also conduct initial detailed
interviews with the candidates and prepare offer letters for the selected ones.

I am also a part of the HR Special projects team and have worked on significant HR/recruitment-related, the highlights being:

• Continuously working on enhancing the recruitment process for both business and candidates thereby improving the overall
user experience, by optimizing our ATS
• Worked on creating a more user-friendly application form on SuccessFactors for the applicants while ensuring compliance
with GDPR and EEO Commission guidelines
• Worked on the optimization of the internal career site together with the graphic designing team
• Being the SuccessFactors SME, made tutorial videos to guide the new hiring managers and recruiters through it
• Preparing the annual Affirmative Action Report to be submitted to the EEO Commission in the US by the end of every year
• Involved with the DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiatives with the local HR and branding teams
• Also trained to deliver CUBIKS PAPI Assessment feedback to the candidates.

Key strengths: Pro-active, good communicator, good at market mapping and have great relationship-building skills

ABC Consultants (June 2016 - June 2018)

Onsite TA Lead for Philips Healthcare@home

Jun 2016 - Jun 2018

• Managed recruitment process and life-cycle, including initial assessments, interviews and offers. Worked with internal teams
and hiring managers to assist with recruitment at PAN India level.
• Managed complete recruitment life cycle with sourcing the best talent through Internal Referrals, Direct sourcing tools and
Recruitment Agencies.
• Formulated various recruitment strategies to ensure closure of positions with predefined TAT.
• Talent Mapping the competitor pool & other industry metrics & keep future ready data with an emphasis on Data
Management
• Drove referral program for Pan India.
• Gathered relevant market data and provided regular reports to the business.
• Drove initiatives for Campus hiring, Mapping, Headhunting for every critical requirement
• Maintained mandate dashboards along with the action happening on every position and presented to the key stakeholders
on a weekly basis

Achievement/s: Took the youngest business of Philips India Ltd. from an average monthly hire of 3 to an average monthly
hire of 14 within 3 months.

Additional Assignment(s):

Worked on a pilot project directly under the supervision of Vinod Subramaniam (Head of FlexAbility), which was aimed at
mobilizing the freelancer workforce to reduce the fixed cost of the company where we connected all of them through a common
technology platform, which I helped optimize as per our changing requirements.

ACS Solutions (Jun 2015 - Jun 2016)

Global Recruiter
Reason for Change: Global recruitment operations got dissolved.

Majorly worked for EMEA region, hired both expats and locals, senior management hiring (Leadership- Executive level)

• Responsible for recruitment and selection of staff across all levels, conducting the preliminary round of interviews
(telephonic, face-to-face, skype)
• Interacting with CEO, HODs and all higher-level profiles for Hiring & Recruitment strategies. Managed dashboards for
recruitment, also have experience working on Taleo

Clients Handled: Leading Real Estate group based out of Dubai, Leading Oil & Gas firm for their hiring in Australia and UK,
Leading telecom client for their requirement based in China & Africa

A2Z Placements (Sep 2013 - May 2015)

Sr. Recruiter

• Managed the complete recruitment life-cycle for Senior and Leadership Management. Hired majorly for African locations,
both expats and locals
• Screened applications through job portals, Employee/ candidate references, and assess candidates' skills through preliminary
telephonic interviews.
• Took the lead as and when required and prepared requisition gathering template and sent it to the corresponding sourcing
lead to initiate the sourcing; Shortlisted the profiles sourced and sent it to the respective hiring managers
• Involved in different stages of recruitment from explaining the roles and responsibilities to the candidate to coordinating
with the client at every stage of the interview and negotiating salaries on company standards with the selected candidates

Clients Handled: Olam International, Wipro Consumer Care, Ingram Micro, Stallion Group, Fareast Mercantile, Jotna Group,
P&G, CK Birla, Samsung Electronics, United Breweries, Ashok Leyland, Orange Group, Arvato, Narayana Healthcity, etc.

2007-2013: Worked with some production houses to learn the art of film-making and nuances of theatrics

EDUCATION

Symbiosis Centre For Management and Human Resource Development (2014 - 2016)
Master of Business Administration - MBA, HR

Delhi University (2009 - 2012)

B.A. (Hons.), English Language and Literature

St. Xavier School – Delhi (1997 - 2007)

Commerce